Don't Mess with that Turtle-Chapter 40 - 039 Protector_1
40: Chapter 039 Protector_1
40 -039 Protector_1
Was the black-clothed man sent by Su Huanian?
If that’s the case, the fact that the first trial’s swordsmanship came with dice does make sense.
After all, it wasn’t a reward, but a case of Su He engaging in subterfuge.
Which means he hasn’t received the rewards for the first or second trials yet.
After looking around, Su He confirmed there was nothing left in the meditation room and turned to leave.
There was nothing in the backyard either, all the doors were locked and couldn’t be opened, even the door to the meditation room was firmly shut, making it inaccessible.
Returning to the inner yard, a quick search revealed a small box at the spot where the colorful giant python had been. freewebnøvel.com
Inside the box were a bottle of pill medicine and a handful of fine sand.
As soon as the Token of Trial touched the box, it immediately emitted a voice, “Passing the first trial with the log man and the second with Divine God’s Pressure, you’re quite remarkable, little turtle.
Take the pill medicine and golden sand and retire, the third trial is not something you can overcome, my cultivation technique is not meant for you.”
This was a pre-recorded message, triggered under specific conditions.
Similar to the use of a talisman rune’s sealing function?
The voice sounded vaguely familiar, but the speaker was pinching his throat to sound serious, making the voice slightly off-pitch, making it hard to identify at the moment.
Su He’s turtle face suddenly became full of expression.
The black-clothed man was not part of the trial!
Thinking back carefully, the Token of Trial vibrated three times: once when entering the door, once when entering the second door, and once when coming to the backyard.
Su He thought it was vibrating once every time a trial was passed, but actually, it vibrated whenever entering a trial!
He did enter the third trial, but the trial itself was gone, erased by someone.
He essentially passed directly through.
It was not something Su Huanian would do; she wasn’t the type to engage in such disgraceful acts.
With her status, if she really wanted to give Su He a set of cultivation techniques, she would have simply asked for them.
Why bother with a half-baked trial?
There’s a trick to the trial!
Su He picked up the small box and immediately left the trial area.
He hastened away!
Fearing that changes might occur if he delayed!
No matter what trickery was behind the trial, going back to Su Huanian immediately would resolve all problems.
Furthermore, this place was Beast Valley, which was inherently incompatible with him.
Su He didn’t want to stay a moment longer.
Beast Valley was adjacent to Elephant Water, and just over a hundred miles to the west was Tinghai Lake.
Su He headed east, swiftly following the flow of water like a shooting star, and in just half an hour, he arrived at the mountain where Su Huanian was.
He climbed halfway up the mountain and burst into the thick fog.
The dense fog gave Su He a great sense of security.
“Ao!” He let out a long cry.
Turtle Mountain flew over, landing steadily on Su He’s shell.
The Immortal Sword on Turtle Mountain gave a soft cry, and the fog automatically parted, just like the way it treated Feng Yaya.
Crawling inside, Su Huanian stood by the pool’s edge in a snow-white dress, like a fairy among the clouds.
Su He gently placed the small box at her feet, the golden sand, pill medicine, and token.
The token was still playing the message advising retreat on a loop, a voice that became increasingly familiar the more he listened.
Su Huanian chuckled softly, “Elder Ge is just such a person.
Aside from his direct disciples, he doesn’t pass on his cultivation techniques.
You don’t need to worry.
I will create a set for you to make up for the lost days.”
This was the realm of the powerful, to announce the creation of an unusual cultivation technique on the spot.
Su He’s eyes sparkled, and then he stretched his neck out like a gulping whale, drawing in a long, steady breath.
This was the Turtle Breath Longevity Secret, which Su He had not yet practiced, but was merely demonstrating.
Su Huanian frowned slightly, “You passed the third trial?”
When something abnormal happened, it must be a demon’s doing.
Su He: “Ao!”
Su Huanian shook her head, “I don’t understand the beast language.”
But from the look in Su He’s eyes, she could tell that he wasn’t just showing off; he was trying to communicate something.
Su Huanian stretched out a slender jade finger and lightly tapped, as a paper crane flapped its wings and flew away.
It must have gone to find an interpreter who understood the beast language.
“You may circulate your cultivation technique, and I’ll protect you,” Su Huanian waved his hand, and a light curtain enveloped the Grass Residence, shielding Feng Yaya.
An ordinary trial was the only issue, the biggest problem being that someone might tamper with the cultivation technique in hopes of taming the turtle.
Those who practiced cultivation dared to contend with heaven and acted recklessly.
They wouldn’t become docile and afraid to lay a hand on Su He simply because she had written the character “Su” on Turtle Mountain.
Let alone a single “Su” character, even those who aspired to seize the Sect Leader’s throne were not few in number.
It was just that some people knew how to bide their time, while others were rash and lacked wisdom.
A Divine God Beast was enough to tempt people into taking risks.
If they could tame it, what did it matter if they betrayed their own sect?
Otherwise, there would be no need to place the Immortal Sword on Turtle Mountain.
If Su Huanian intended to act as protector, Su He naturally agreed wholeheartedly.
She first closed her eyes and recalled the meridian acupoints of the turtle species, then reviewed the cultivation technique.
Confirming there was nothing she misunderstood, she slowly emptied her thoughts of distractions.
Her limbs relaxed, and she entered the right state.
Being cautious with her first cultivation, Su He was extremely meticulous.
The Turtle Breath Longevity Secret was divided into two parts.
The first part involved drawing in spiritual energy from all directions through a special Breathing Technique.
The second part nourished the demon star with this spiritual energy to generate spiritual power, and then circulated it through the meridians in a Grand Circulation.
Indeed, a demon star!
Elder Ge had created this cultivation technique with his second body as the subject.
Cultivators who developed a second body could only be ordinary beasts and had to follow the Path of Exotic Beasts.
However, with the roll of the dice, the cultivation technique advanced, and Su He’s cultivation technique now centered around the Heart Orifice Divine God Object.
Su He closed her eyes, and with each breath, vast spiritual energy was drawn into her belly and then exhaled, with just a wisp of spiritual energy retained within her body, integrating into the Mind Orifice.
Within the Mind Orifice, the Dragon Turtle Illusion absorbed the spiritual energy and exhaled spiritual power.
Spiritual power was different from spiritual energy.
While spiritual energy was found everywhere and would leave the body as it entered, spiritual power was Su He’s own strength.
If one were to make a comparison, spiritual energy was like food, and spiritual power was like the strength contained in muscles!
The swirling mist within Su He’s Mind Orifice was her spiritual power, which had previously formed naturally in a state of ignorance.
She had not understood how to circulate it or how to cultivate it.
It was only instinctively consumed when she used her Water Control Divine God Power.
Using the newly formed spiritual power as a pivot, Su He led the spiritual power out of the Mind Orifice and surged it into her meridians.
The Turtle Breath Longevity Secret did not just involve the circulation through regular and extraordinary meridians.
Su He vaguely understood that the cultivation technique made her entire body’s acupoints form a Grand Circulation like stars, with the circulation of spiritual power linking these stars to form a Star Map.
In other words, it created a spiritual power formation within her body!
Tutor Qiu Tong once said that everything was a formation.
Humans were formations, plants were formations, and birds and beasts were also formations.
At this moment, it indeed seemed so.
The Turtle Longevity Secret originally linked only sixty-five acupoints to form a star map resembling the Seven Stars of the Northern Dipper.
After being advanced by the dice, the pattern…
Su He couldn’t recognize it!
Perhaps it was due to a lack of knowledge, or maybe this was not a star map at all, but just the most suitable pathway for Su He’s cultivation technique to operate.
The spiritual power circulated through the meridians for one cycle, returned to the Mind Orifice, and was then guided out again along another pathway to forge a complex network.
A total of seven such network star maps needed to be circulated to complete one Grand Circulation.
When the spiritual power returned to the Mind Orifice, it had grown slightly stronger.
Su He slowly opened her eyes to find the sky had darkened again.
A full day had passed with one Grand Circulation.
Upon opening her eyes, Su He saw Su Huanian pressing one hand onto Su He’s shell and manipulating a Refining Furnace with the other, refining a magic treasure.
In the span of one day, Su Huanian had been multitasking, both refining artifacts and observing the operation of Su He’s cultivation technique.
Seeing Su He awake, the Tianyi released from Su He’s shell, and the Refining Furnace came to a halt.
Opening the lid, Su Huanian lightly tapped it, and a bunch of hairsbreadth silver needles flew out.
He pointed towards Su He’s reward chest and said, “You brought back Sand of Geng Gold, a byproduct formed by mixing too many different precious metals while refining artifacts.
While it can’t be used to refine magic treasures, it contains the divine properties of a hundred metals.
I’ve forged them into seventy-two silver needles for you, and if you blend them into your Water Control Divine God Power, they will enhance its strength somewhat.”
Su He was delighted.
It seems even as a turtle, one still needed to cling to the powerful.
Su Huanian then pointed to the Pill Medicine Su He had brought back and said, “These are Four Monarch Pills, refined from angelica, chuanxiong, white peony, and Rehmannia that are over five hundred years old.
They will significantly benefit the advancement of your bloodline.”
